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                    Welcome to the <strong>press corner</strong> of the <strong>EU Digital Identity Wallet</strong>
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                <p>The aim of this page is to facilitate communication for anyone who wishes to spread the word about the initiative.</p>
                <p>In the following sections, you will find material curated specifically for you to easily and quickly create articles, blogs or social media posts about the European Digital Identity Wallet</p>
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                    <strong>What is</strong> the EU Digital Identity Wallet?
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                        <h3 class="rc-title">EU Digital Identity Wallet explained</h3>
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                            <p class="clipboard-txt">EU Digital Identity Wallets are personal digital wallets, issued by
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                                in the form of apps, allowing every citizen to digitally identify themselves,
                                store and manage identity data and official documents in digital form.</p>
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                        <h3 class="rc-title">Benefits of the Wallet</h3>
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                            <p class="clipboard-txt">The EU Digital Identity Wallet improves on current e-ID systems, by
                                offering personal digital wallets that are safe, free, convenient to use, protect
                                personal data and can be used all over the EU to identify yourself online and to share
                                electronic documents.</p>
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                        <h3 class="rc-title">Roadmap and milestones</h3>
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                            <p class="clipboard-txt">The EU Digital Identity Framework was adopted on May 20 2024. The first batch of Implementing Acts were published and opened for public consultation on August 12 2024. Once voted, Member States will have 24 months to offer at least one wallet to citizens, residents, and businesses.</p>
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                    <p>Every time an App or website asks us to create a new digital identity or to easily log on via a big platform, we have no idea what happens to our data in reality. That is why the Commission will propose a secure European e-identity. One that we trust and that any citizen can use anywhere in Europe to do anything from paying your taxes to renting a bicycle. A technology where we can control ourselves what data is used and how.</p>
                    <p class="ref">State of the Union address, 16 September 2020</p>
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                <p class="ref">President of the European Commission</p>
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                <h2 class="h2 pb">The <strong>EU Digital Identity wallet</strong> in <strong>numbers</strong></h2>
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                            <span class="big-txt">360</span>
                            <span><strong>private companies and public authorities</strong> across 26 Member States,
                                as well as Norway, Iceland, and Ukraine, are <strong>participating in the Large Scale Pilots.</strong></span>
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                            <span class="big-txt">+11</span>
                            <span>every-day <strong>use cases</strong> for the EU Digital Identity Wallet are being
                                <strong>tested by the Large Scale Pilots.</strong></span>
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                            <span class="big-txt">4</span>
                            <span><strong>Large Scale Pilot projects</strong> are testing the EU Digital
                                Identity Wallet before its roll-out to Member States</span>
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                <h2 class="h2 pb">Our <strong>social media platforms</strong> and <strong>hashtag</strong></h2>
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                <p>If you are interested in posting about the EU Digital Identity Wallet on social media,
                    don't hesitate to tag us and use our hashtag to ensure brand consistency throughout the posts and
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                                EUDIWallet
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                <p>Here you can find useful resources to help you communicate about the EU Digital Identity Wallet.</p>
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                    <h3 class="h4">Useful visual materials</h3>
                    <p>Access high-quality EU Digital Identity Wallet visual material that you can reuse.</p>
                    <p>Please refer to the Icon usage guidelines for information on how to use the icon.</p>
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                    <h3 class="h4">Icon usage guidelines</h3>
                    <p>Brand mark usage guidelines specify how the EU Digital Identity Wallet mark can be used,
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                    <li><a href="/digital-building-blocks/sites/display/EUDIGITALIDENTITYWALLET/What+is+the+wallet">
                            Find a general overview of the wallet</a></li>
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                            Present the benefits of the wallet</a></li>
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